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And now, to finish off your Thursday, here's a roundup of various news tidbits that I found interesting:

Scoreboard Media Group has an encouraging post called "If At First You Don't Succeed, Quit!" Though it's rife with baseball metaphors, Brian Provost makes a fantastic point--that sometimes the smartest thing to do is to quit a project. There's nothing worse than running a venture into the ground for months and refusing to acknowledge that maybe it wasn't meant to be.

Problogger wrote a little gem of a post titled "How Not to Become a Grumpy Old Blogger." It's easy to believe that people love to read about your rants and bitchings, but you run the risk of sounding like an unhappy, unlikeable one-trick pony. Thicken up that skin! My advice is to grow up with two older brothers who coined affectionate nicknames for you (like Turd) and pounced on every insecurity you made the mistake of exposing. It works wonders, and the requisite therapy as an adult is totally worth it (Hi Dr. Gladstein! I'm sharing my feelings!).

My mother land has been quite newsworthy lately. First Barry reports over at Search Engine Land that by September 1st, Koreans will be required to enter their name and resident registration number in order to view unfiltered "adult" search queries. What if you're a teenager in Korea and you want to look up information about safe sex? Will that get caught by the filter? I'm a bit worried about what Korea will determine to be "adult in nature."

SMX Advanced in Seattle is only 17 days away, so buy your pass if you haven't already! Rand, of course, will be speaking on a social media marketing panel, Jane and I will provide extensive coverage of the conference, and Matt, Jeff, and Scott will be waiting in the wings to crash any event parties in the evenings.

Congratulations to the five finalists in Andy Beal's SEM Scholarship competition, Keri Morgret and Cavan Moon, who took the grand prize and the runner's up honors in Bruce Clay's SEO Charity Contest, and Patrick Sexton, who won a free pass to SMX from Aaron Wall. Man, everyone's having contest nowadays. SEOmoz should have one. How about whoever designs the most kick-ass SEOmoz t-shirt gets to spend a day with our delightful programmers, Matt and Jeff, as they tell you why your design sucks and doesn't incorporate enough vectors and swirls.

If you can think of any other stories that you'd like to share, then feel free to do so in the comments. In the meantime, look forward to my crappy Whiteboard Friday video tomorrow, where I spend zero minutes talking about SEO and a few minutes making fun of Rand

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Rebecca Kelley is the content marketing manager for Intego, a Mac software company. She also guest-blogs/freelances at various places and runs a couple hobby blogs for shits and giggles.

Aaron, I hike alot, and sometimes on a hike I realize that I didn't wipe my ass good enough and my butt cheeks get red and bumpy and start hurting like hell with every step I take, resulting in me walking more slowly and more penguin-ish. (this should but it in context)

Dude...you know this is going to follow you around forever, right? :)

And if you got the free pass I think that puts you in a spot where you can pay for $1250 worth of beer and still come out ahead. ;)

I'll look for the guy with the beard. You look for the guy with the shaved head and goatee - then we just need to not end up in the drunk tank!

If you spend your time looking for a "guy with a beard" at an SEO conference, you're gonna feel like you're in that scene from Being John Malkovich"...what happens when a man goes through his own portal?

Can't wait for SMX - not sure whether my liver needs preparation though, what with me being a half Irish Brit, and the American beer being so watered down & stuf..

*ducks*

On a serious note, thanks for the plug for the Alan post - the whole situation makes me realise how lucky I am to be a logger, looking forward to an industry do in a foreign land that doesn't risk personal danger....

Careful, buddy, the mean streets of Seattle are no place to be off your guard. Wayward travelers are highly in danger of burning their mouths on overly hot Starbucks, or being runover by an SUV-driving soccer mom from Bellevue who's manically texting on her cell phone. You also run a very high risk of salmon overdose (it's everywhere, as a native I can barely handle the damn fish anymore).